32-bit JVM

[Henri Gomez]

> Hi all,
>
> I think it's a case that more people in the community need to be
> willing to help support the 32-bit Mac OS X builds for the long haul.
> Henri is obviously supportive :-) - Heinz, I'm not sure you'd have the
> time to commit to this as well? There probably needs to be a small
> group of folks for that port to be well-maintained.
>
> The sad reality is that 32-bit Mac is dying out, perhaps there are
> specific mailing lists/communities that you can reach out to?

I provided patches months ago to bring back universal builds (and so
32 and 64 bits mode) but nobody care about them.
I also sent core and reports of failure when using OpenJDK 7 with
universal patches against some apps like Jenkins, no more interest
neither.

32 bits Mac JVM is dying because there is no interest for it.
All others platforms will have 32 and 64 bits JVM, Linux, Windows,
Solaris, but not OSX, it's sad but "c'est la vie".

If users/admins/customers need 32bits JVM for minimal memory footprint
or just because they just don't need 64bits addressing/pointers, there
is plenty of OS and Java VM implementations around where 32bits
support is still available and officially maintained.